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Re:How Apple let Siri fall behind the Google Assistant and A... by nagVenkat on Thursday March 15, 2018 @09:47AM (#16592776)
Do you have any accent? By that I mean are you a second language English speaker? I just presumed that it couldn’t understand my accent heavy speeech.
Re:How Apple let Siri fall behind the Google Assistant and A... by Reason077 on Thursday March 15, 2018 @01:25PM (#16594797)
I'm a native English speaker, though whether I have an accent depends on your perspective! I can do either American or British somewhat convincingly, and I usually don't have any trouble being understood by Siri.

I suspect the problem with "50" is that whatever ML underpins it is heavily tuned/biased towards "15" because a lot of people probably set 15 minute timers all the time. 50 minute timers are much less common, I suspect?

Re:How Apple let Siri fall behind the Google Assistant and A... by oarsinsync on Thursday March 15, 2018 @10:16AM (#16593016)
Americans think I sound British. British think I sound American. Siri fails less often when set to British instead of American for me, but still fails too often regardless.